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Two young men were freed yesterday in the mysterious death plunge of a popular New Jersey cheerleader in Hawaii.

Detectives said there were no indications of foul play in the death of Lauren Crossan, 18, and classified the case as an accident.

The release came as grieving friends and relatives of the Randolph, N.J., teen struggled to understand how the outgoing high-school athlete ended up falling, unclothed, from the balcony of the pair’s ninth-floor hotel room.

Donald Devorss, 19, and Erik Larson, 20, of Folsom, Calif., told cops they were on vacation and had fallen asleep early Monday morning while Crossan – whom they had just met – was in their room.

They said they woke up to find her gone and didn’t know what had happened to her until police told them. Crossan’s nude body was found on a patio below their balcony at the Hyatt Regency Maui Resort.

A short time later, police found the cheerleader’s clothes in the room registered to Devorss and Larson.

A preliminary autopsy report found that Crossan had not been sexually assaulted, but that she had been drinking.

Crossan’s shocked classmates at Randolph HS said the circumstances surrounding her death totally out of character.

“There’s no way she would jump or just fall off a balcony,” said senior Courtney Burbridge.

Crossan was in Maui to perform during halftime at this Saturday’s Hula Bowl.